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elated stuff http classicalfencing blogspot com for unschooling learning related stuff http unschoolingme blogspot com i may still post here occasionally but most things will be over on those new blogs thanks linda wyatt maître d armes volunteer emt photographer view my complete profile the whole story 2011 9 october 1 skipping school march 1 february 6 january 1 2010 4 may 3 march 1 2009 16 october 1 september 3 august 1 june 1 april 3 march 2 february 2 january 3 2008 66 december 2 november 8 october 7 september 11 august 13 july 22 june 3 blogs i read xkcd com perseids 2 days ago statter911 com pre arrival video from pennsylvania house fire 1 week ago a day in the life of an ambulance driver i m baaack 3 weeks ago street watch notes of a paramedic central line access 3 weeks ago life under the lights understanding why washington endometriosis causes severe and chronic pain 8 months ago the emt spot new study finds tea and dark chocolate may lower blood pressure naturally 1 year ago run to the curb not your typical truckie the lost act of popping in 1 year ago freedom to learn a brief history of moral panics about kids and media 1 year ago the lawdog files ugh 1 year ago rescuing providence your question what cryptocurrency can i buy on coinbase 5 years ago backstep firefighter january 2020 on duty deaths 6 years ago the swordmaster s grimoire a rosoidae by any other name 8 years ago fire daily most public pensions received insufficient employer contributions source plansponsor ippfa 9 years ago do life right word of the year 2017 stretch 9 years ago spartacus jones 14 ways to stop police brutality 9 years ago the barb wire still 10 years ago insomniacmedic hope 11 years ago daring drake farm season has begun 11 years ago athena tv len wein 1word1thought1moment 11 years ago learning happens unschooling observations and opinions resentful unschooling parents 11 years ago pink warm dry welcome 11 years ago noor s blog it s been fun 11 years ago confessions of an ems newbie podcast confessions of an ems newbie retrospective 12 years ago command safety fdny the 23 street collapse october 17 1966 box 55 598 12 years ago hyperbole and a half menace 12 years ago lyrics game the game has moved and changed 13 years ago skipping school breaking into the public school to play sports 14 years ago maddogmedicold moved 15 years ago pam sorooshian s blog 11 my ideal job 16 years ago drug induced hallucinations protocol 36 16 years ago gomerville vi hart on the clock how i learn stuff subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments wednesday october 12 2011 skipping school i just found out about this blog because someone posted a link to an article by this young woman http skipping school com i love it she sounds so much like us plus she s a decent writer posted by linda wyatt at 2 34 pm 1 comments sunday march 6 2011 time for a change been considering this for a while this blog started out as one thing and has somehow morphed into something else it is time to separate things out a little even while noticing how very connected they are for now i ll leave this here for anyone who wants to read back through the archives including myself most of the fencing related and teaching related stuff will appear on our new collaborative blog the swordmaster s grimoire the ems stuff will be on my new actually an ems blog blog the lonely emt so whichever of those you are interested in now you know where to go i don t know yet if i ll end up continuing this blog or not there might be some things that don t really belong on either of the other two but i don t know yet i ll know if and when it happens i kind of expect that it will posted by linda wyatt at 10 03 pm 0 comments monday february 28 2011 alcohol related had a talk with some of our students this morning it went basically like this college is an interesting time in your lives it s a time to get away from your parents from your family of origin and start to make your own way in the world it s a time to learn many new things to make new friends and connections that will last a lifetime and it s a time to make mistakes and do stupid things some of which you ll look back on years from now and wonder why you did please don t let one of those stupid things be drinking yourself to death two local college students different colleges and as far as i know completely unrelated circumstances died this past weekend official reports say the deaths are alcohol related i don t know what that means exactly except it means it was a total waste a tragic loss for the families that was brought on by the choices made by the individuals i can t help but notice the frequency of calls for ambulances because of someone drinking him or herself into a stupor and every time i hear that or see that i always wonder about the families i wonder if the parents realize that they are paying through the nose for their kid to get an education and what they are getting is stupid drunk not just ordinary drunk but enough that they need a trip to the er i did a lot of stupid things when i was younger i imbibed my fair share or perhaps a few peoples fair shares of alcohol but never have i done so in such away as to need emergency medical care or even close seems to happen all the time now in some places the cause of this stupid behavior i started to be politically correct and say unfortunate but let s face it it s stupid could be argued at length and i m sure there are a variety of contributory issues i don t really care what the cause is i care about the results lives wasted so please whoever you are wherever you are don t do this to yourself just don t it s an ugly ugly way to go posted by linda wyatt at 5 26 pm 1 comments tuesday february 22 2011 ambulance driver s blog post today i almost never do this but i have to this time go read this post entitled on teaching mentoring and stewardship talk about the perfect crossover between my two worlds of teaching and ems ad really gets what it s about i m envious of anyone who has been or will be precepted by him posted by linda wyatt at 2 27 pm 1 comments sunday february 20 2011 split personality feeling like i have a split personality these days on the one hand i m researching and working on writing my fencing master s thesis that s a lot of reading and a lot of writing teaching classes and otherwise focusing and refocusing on the whole fencing thing writing for the new blog working on my own training it s good on the other hand i m excited about going to ems today enthusiastic about the opportunity to learn some stuff get some decent training and network making preparations for applying to the local ambulance company where i ve wanted to work since my first ride along looking forward to getting more into the whole ems thing once i get my youngest a little older so i can work long hours without feeling like i m being negligent seems like two totally separate things pulling me in different directions but it isn t not really there is a lot of overlap one big area of overlap is something i ve been thinking about a lot lately it s more than just customer service something fencing and ems have in common in a huge way is the necessity to be able to create rapport to connect with the student patient in a very personal immediate way without distracting from the technical things you must also be able to do knowing how to get my student to focus where i want him her to focus and to stay connected with me is a huge help in being able to help my patient focus where he she needs to focus whether it s on something like his her breathing rate or something anything other than what is happening around him her in a crisis being able to give a technical lesson and perform the skills i need to perform while giving constant verbal and non verbal feedback to my student is a huge help in being able to treat my patient and keep communicating knowing how to use my voice to keep my student focused is very much like using my voice to calm my patient maybe my personality isn t as split as i thought posted by linda wyatt at 4 56 pm 1 comments wednesday february 16 2011 worth a thousand words when i first joined the fire service one of the things i did on scene was to take pictures some of these were used on the fire company website some have been used for fire investigation some have been used for training as i became trained to do more things on scene my ability to take pictures decreased because i was simply too busy doing other things that needed to be done to be available to take pictures back when i took a lot of pictures i was always careful about what kinds of pictures i took i never took a picture of a patient didn t take pictures of things that might cause any patient or homeowner embarrassment or grief any pictures that i took that showed identifying information such as license plates i didn t publish recently the fire company in a fit of i don t know what announced a new policy regarding taking pictures i found this a little amusing considering no one had taken any pictures on scene for quite some time even though there is a company camera in one of the apparatus for just that purpose the policy as i remember it there has been no written version is that no one is to take any pictures on any scene pictures are only to be taken at training or for the purposes of a fire investigation this is a policy recommended by the company lawyer for liability reasons whatever so a couple of weeks after the announcement of the new policy there we were at an accident scene and one of the assistant chiefs was taking pictures with his cell phone he then asked if the company camera was available and asked someone to use it to take pictures that s interesting seems to be in direct violation of the company policy but this scene was unusual and in my personal opinion pictures of it would be very helpful for training purposes and for the most part that is what i have always thought scene pictures were most useful for so that they could be looked at later and information gained that wasn t necessarily noticed at the time so i heartily support the idea of pictures of this particular incident it was unique at the next training when we did a post incident analysis of the event the pictures taken on scene were shown as they needed to be and there was a big notice written on the white board in the training room saying that these pictures were to be seen inside the fire company only not to be shared with the public a reminder of the new policy or at least related to it in some way considering that it isn t exactly in accordance with that as yet unwritten policy which didn t mention anything about sharing or not sharing pictures but i digress a sensible consideration a reminder not to be spreading the images around far and wide if there has been a decision by the company not to do so fast forward a while imagine my surprise to find out by chance that those very same pictures were sent to someone who shared them with a large number of people outside the fire company okay so maybe i wasn t that surprised and for the record i think the people who saw the pictures should have seen them that s not the issue the point is that it seems to me to be counterproductive to have the officers announce a new policy not to put it into writing and then to violate that policy themselves almost immediately not only by taking pictures but by sharing them around town what was this policy about exactly is it or is it not company policy is it policy for some but not for others or what at the very least i think the policy should be reconsidered but i thought that the moment it was announced i have the same problem with a no pictures policy that i have with parts of hipaa neither takes into consideration how very useful information can be in training that i am limited in how much information i can find out about a patient after they leave our care means that i have no feedback on the care i provided if i don t know how effective i am or am not how can i improve the quality of the care i provide if we can t share pictures of unusual situations the condition of a vehicle the location of a patient etc with other emts in the company who weren t at an incident how can we share what we have learned from any new experience how can we use it to train and practice for future events any thoughts on this does your agency have a no pictures policy do you think they should i know that there are places where there have been issues with people being stupid about sharing photographs that they shouldn t have shared but i don t think prohibiting pictures at all is the solution posted by linda wyatt at 10 24 am 1 comments sunday february 13 2011 ems today i applied for a scholarship to ems today thinking i d never get it and never be able to afford to go the application info said they would start notifying people on feb 1st which came and went not a word i assumed i hadn t gotten it no surprise and pretty much stopped thinking about it some of the folks who are going were tweeting about it and posting about it and knowing i wouldn t be able to go i passed over those comments with a feeling of sadness for myself while being happy for them it s not like i have nothing else to do i m pretty busy and have plenty to keep me occupied it s not like i can t work on continuing my education in other ways like the variety of books i ve been reading lately and it s not like i can t still read ems blogs and learn from them but still ems today the premiere ems conference incredible opportunities all in one place people i d love to meet in person educational sessions galore and the whole exhibit hall and it s not that far away worth ever penny it would be no question i just don t have the pennies a couple of days ago we were getting ready to go out dancing when i checked my e mail just before leaving and there was an e mail with the subject heading ems today scholarship i assumed it would begin with something like thank you for applying but with so many qualified applicants it was difficult to decide who to give a scholarship to unfortunately it wasn t you it didn t it said congratulations after careful review of your scholarship application for ems today you have been selected to receive a gold 3 day passport to this year s conference i think i screamed i m not a screaming person in general suddenly i m scrambling to choose which sessions i want to take all of them aaahhhh i m looking for a hotel room somewhere near the convention center and i can barely contain my excitement at actually being able to go i d like to thank jems for making the whole event possible and for making it possible for me to go i d like to thank all the ems bloggers for inspiring educating and entertaining me i m very much looking forward to meeting some of you i m sure i ll have a lot more to say once i m there and when i m back home again posted by linda wyatt at 5 58 pm 0 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